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In this May 10, 2017, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Catholic leaders and university presidents are objecting to Feinstein's line of questioning for one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, arguing the focus on her faith is misplaced and runs counter to the Constitution’s prohibition on religious tests for political office. The outcry stems from the questioning of Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor tapped to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Democrats focused on whether her personal views would override her legal judgment, especially with respect to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Feinstein told Barrett that dogma and law are two different things and she was concerned “that the dogma lives loudly within you.” (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, shows her passport during a news conference about closing loopholes in the Visa Waiver Program. Citing the "soft underbelly of our national security policies," she and other senators are writing a bill that would require anyone who has visited Syria or Iraq in the past five years to have passports with e-chips. (Associated Press)

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, called her committee's findings on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities after the 9/11 terror attacks a "stain on the nation's history." However, following the 9/11 attacks, Mrs. Feinstein herself said that, "We have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves." (Associated Press)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat and intelligence committee chairwoman who led the investigation, said there was evidence that the CIA subjected more persons to waterboarding than just the three that the CIA has acknowledged — though the evidence for that was inconclusive. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Current and former intelligence officials are furious at the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat. They say the panel did not interview the senior managers of the interrogation program launched after the Sept. 11 attacks nor the CIA directors who oversaw it. (Associated Press)